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...recent actions. In January last year, 11 people presented their Cypriot passports at Monterrey airport in Mexico. The numbers that flashed up on Interpol's database revealed that these documents came from a batch of 850 blank passports stolen in Cyprus; it turned out that the men were Iraqi citizens trying to slip into the U.S. Last April, masked gunmen executed a jewelry heist in Dubai. They left behind DNA samples, which matched those that Interpol had in its database for two Serbian armed robbers who had escaped from a Liechtenstein jail in 2006. And in 2005, eight years after...
...Europeans drawing foolish lines on a map they barely understood. Bush's feckless invasion had tossed a hand grenade into a house of cards-and now there was the stunning realization that only an exhausted U.S. Army blocked a bloody revision of borders. "We are one people," insisted the Iraqi Communist Mufid al-Jazairi during one session. "We are not Sunni and Shi'a. We are Iraqis." The other delegates exchanged pained glances or looked away...
...demolition of the same structures. We have a judicial tradition and reasonably independent judges. We had a reasonable tradition of empowered votes. [Allowing the government of Pakistan to dismiss] the judges is going to prove to be as ill-advised and as disastrous as dismissing the entire Iraqi army. The Americans are going to rue the day that they allowed - without a whimper - Pervez Musharraf to arrest the judges. If they continue to keep the status quo on that issue, they will find that their man and their policies will become more and more unacceptable...
...officials are hoping Iraqi security forces are able to accomplish on their own what volunteer fighters have against the insurgency in places like Anbar Province, where a confederation of tribesmen turned against al-Qaeda in Iraq and began fighting alongside U.S. troops. An estimated 9,000 Iraqi army troops are in Mosul working with some 1,400 American soldiers. Additionally, about 9,000 Iraqi police are in the city as well. But so far Iraqi security forces have yet to make a significant display of force in Mosul...
...Iraqi Defense Minister Abdel Qader Jassim Mohammed recently visited the city recently and expressed concern that Iraqi security forces were disorganized and abandoning the streets at night. U.S. troops continue to work with Iraqi security forces to establish jointly manned checkpoints and outposts in Mosul. U.S. troops are also helping Iraqi army and police to chase down insurgents with regular raids around the city. But few American soldiers feel a major offensive by the Iraqis on Mosul is imminent. Most are preparing for a long campaign that may not bring visible gains until the summer. "This is going to happen...